Until We Meet Again, So Long!

You know when I set out to blog for five days a year straight I honestly didn't
think I would make it. But here I am, at the beginning of the new year and I did
it successfully. There were days where I wanted to give up and just quit, there
were days where I didn't know what I wanted to post, there were days where I
wanted to post too much, there were days where my job got the better of me,
there were days where personal problems got the better of me and there were days
where the coding pissed me off so bad that I didn't want anything to do with
blogging anymore.

But here I am, a year knocked down.

Honestly this has been one of the better years of my life because I fully
invested myself into something that I love doing. This is the reason why I went
to school for Mass Communications, because I love to talk. Not only did I set
out to do a task that a lot of people thought was impossible, I set out to learn
a lot more about myself, which in turn I learned more about myself than I ever
would imagine. I also met some great people, (majority of them being women),
along the road to bettering myself and that's something that I will never take
for granted.

But with all that said I've decided to take an extended "break" from Cold
Knowledge.

Now what does the word break mean? Well for starters it means that I'm taking a
solid month off from everything; social networking, posting new content, making
new content, the whole nine yards. I'm mentally exhausted from posting original
content and always promoting it on social media, as well as coming up with a ton
of drafts that I'm not doing anything with because I'm always doing other
things. Plus I have a personal and career life that I need to get a better grip
on at the current moment. I mean I'm doing good in most people standards, but I
have a vision in my head that I want to see come to life and I need to focus on
that for a bit.

I have a couple of goals for Cold Knowledge that I need to work on and I can't
do that with me always having to worry about putting up new content every week.
This is going to be sort of like my rebranding period where I take a step back
and come back in full force. I need to figure out some of the goals that I want
to accomplish and work on some of the drafts that are currently sitting in my
drafts folder, (which is about to hit 600 posts at any given day now). My brain
works so fast that I need to slow it down and creating more quality content and
work on taking pictures for the blog lol.

If you're a blogger that I am close with, don't worry for a second, I'll still
be in the background helping you guys and lending my advice as always. This is
just more so along the lines of me stepping back and appreciating what I've done
this year and giving people a chance to really go over my old content a little
more since I'm almost at 450 posts on here. That's a lot more than most bloggers
can say they put out by themselves and I'm proud of that fact. I've pretty much
talked it over with my tribe and they all support it, so I'm good on my decision
to do this and I'm glad they're on my side for the most part lol.

My tribe is pretty bad ass if you ask me.

Like I said before, there are a couple of goals that I want to reach and some
other projects I need to work on first before I come back to posting. At the end
of my self imposed hiatus it will definitely be worth it. I will still have my
stuff posting to Twitter through Hootsuite and I'm looking into ads on Facebook
to build brand awareness in my absence. That's why I put "break" the way I did
because I'm still going to be semi working and engaging with people. I know that
I'm thankful to all of those who have supported me this year and become fans
over the course of this year. I'm honestly doing this for my sanity and to give
you guys a better setup for when you come by. It's definitely going to be a
win-win for all parties involved.

In certain cases of where a blog post is required, I will lend my expertise to
another blog and post the link on my Cold Knowledge Twitter account so you guys
can still catch my two cents. But that's only in special circumstances that I
hope never arises.

It might be three months, it might be 6 months, it might be a year; sooner or
later I will be back. It just depends on when I feel it's time to come back or
the man up stairs lets me know when it's time, either way, I will be better than
before.